Description

For Great Maple (without deference to color, or also partial staining) - Aningre blanc/Longhi blanc, Avodir

Indigenous to:

Europe: from North Spain to Ireland, in Great Britain, Denmark and South Sweden, West- and South Poland, in the mountains of Romania, in Russia only in West-Caucasus

Characteristics:

The sapwood and the heartwood are hardly distinguishable. The wood is nearly white or yellowish-white and yellows under influence of air and light. Annual rings come forward, especially in quarter sawing, as fine stripes. The structure is homogeneous and short-fibrous; the texture is very fine and constant, typically diffuse-porous.